Decentralized will management apparatus, systems and related methods of use

A processing node for creating or managing legal documents, the processing node comprising an input engine for prompting for and/or receiving input, a legal engine, a blockchain manager, interface(s), a local and/or remote non-transitory computer-readable medium, and at least one processor, the at least one processor communicatively coupled to the interface(s), the local and/or remote non-transitory computer-readable medium, the input engine, the legal engine, and the blockchain manager;

• the local and/or remote non-transitory computer-readable medium including instructions executable by the at least one processor to:
• receive, using the input engine, input data over a network from at least one host node and/or at least one service node, the at least one host node associated with a legal service provider and the at least one service node associated with an entity seeking legal service, the input data including at least a legal service to be provided to the at least one service node;
• generate, using the legal engine, at least one legal clause and/or at least one legal document from a predetermined list of legal clause(s) and/or legal document(s), based on the received input data;
• and
• store the at least one legal clause and/or at least one legal document in a decentralized data storage (DDS), the DDS accessible by the processing node, the at least one host node and the at least one service node over the network.

A computer-implemented method of creating or managing legal documents, the method comprising:

• providing a decentralized legal document management (DWM) system including a non-transitory computer-readable decentralized data storage (DDS), a distributed ledger and at least one node, the DDS, the distributed ledger and the at least one node communicatively coupled to each other over a network, the at least one node each including at least one processor communicatively coupled to a local and/or remote non-transitory computer-readable medium including instructions executable by the respective at least one processor, the at least one node including:
• at least one host node, each said at least one host node associated with a legal service provider;
• at least one service node, each said at least one service node associated with an entity seeking legal service;
• and at least one processing node, each said at least one processing node further comprising an input engine for prompting for and/or receiving input, a legal engine, and a blockchain manager, each of the input engine, the legal engine and the blockchain manager communicatively coupled to the at least one processor of the respective at least one processing node;
• receiving, using the input engine, input data over the network from the at least one host node and/or the at least one service node, the input data including at least a legal service to be provided to the at least one service node;
• generating, using the legal engine, at least one legal clause and/or at least one legal document from a predetermined list of legal clause(s) and/or legal document(s), based on the received input data;
• storing the at least one legal clause and/or at least one legal document in the DDS, the DDS accessible by the at least one host node and the at least one service node over the network;
• calculating, using the blockchain manager, a first hash value for a will document derived from the at least one legal clause and/or at least one legal document, and a second hash value for a video file derived from a digital video recording of a signing, or signing and witnessing, of the will document, the first hash value being calculated based on a predetermined first hash function and the second hash value being calculated based on a predetermined second hash function, wherein the first hash function is based on metadata and data of the will document and the second hash function is based on metadata and data of the video file;
• modifying, using the blockchain manager a copy of the first hash value or the first hash function to provide a modified hash value for the will document;
• and
• creating, using the blockchain manager, a data block in the distributed ledger, the data block based at least on the modified hash value.